CEOs have highly secure e-mail ids. It’s not that easy to hack them. So, when Sanjay Baweja, the CFO of e-commerce shopping giant Flipkart, received two mails from the official email id of the company’s CEO, Binny Bansal, asking him to transfer $80,000 (Rs.53, 30,000) at 11:33 am on March 1, he got suspicious. Now, this is actually a freaking request to make even if you are the CEO of the company.

The cyber crime cell termed it ‘email spoofing’ in which messages are sent from forged addresses. The emails, according to CID investigators, were sent from Hong Kong and Canada using a Russian server. It is to be noted that it was not a case of hacking, but that of spoofing.

A Flipkart spokesperson said, "We would like to clarify it is not a case of hacking. Flipkart's corporate email system leverages the highest standards of security including but not limited to two factor authentication. We have filed a case of email spoofing which involves use of a forged email header to make it look like a legitimate email. This case of email spoofing was immediately detected and a report was filed with the police.”